Range Rover Sport * See the Top 75 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * New car sales in Qatar are up 47% year-on-year to 6,275 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 48,016 units, up 40% on 2011. For the 4th consecutive month, the Toyota…
Hyundai Elantra * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Omani car market is going from strength to strength in 2012, up an amazing 62% year-on-year in July to 20,677 registrations. This brings the year-to-date total to 116,460 units, up 23% on 2011. The…
Toyota Land Cruiser Pick-up * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * New car sales in Oman are truly going through a euphoric time, up 44% year-on-year in June to 17,041 units, bringing the year-to-date total to 95,783 registrations, up 17%…
Toyota Hilux * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * Emirati car sales are up 9% in March to 24,904 units, bringing the year-to-date total to 71,458 registrations, up 13% on 2011. After losing the best-seller title in extremis to the…
Toyota Hilux * See the Top 75 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * The Omani car market is up 17% in February to 15,635 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 28,927 units, up 8% in 2011. While over the Full Year 2011, the Toyota…
Toyota Prado * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * Kuwaiti car sales are up 27% in February to 10,900 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 21,286 units, up 28% on 2011. In 2011 the Toyota Prado inherited the models ranking…
Toyota Hilux * See the Top 120 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is composed of the states bordering the Persian Gulf: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. 106,191 new vehicles were registered in the region in December, bringing the final 2011 total…
Toyota Land Cruiser * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * Qatari consumers bought 62,346 new vehicles in 2011 and two models stand out from the crowd this year: Qatar's favourite is the Toyotal Land Cruiser with 5,955 sales and 9.6%…
Toyota Hilux * See the Top 110 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * After many attempts at guessing the list of best-selling cars in the UAE based on a couple of short trips there, I can finally share with you official sales figures thanks…
GMC Sierra and Toyota Land Cruiser in Dubai, September 2011 * See the estimated Top 15 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * I was lucky enough to stop over in Dubai over the weekend for the second time in 2 months, so I can…
Toyota FJ Cruiser in Dubai, July 2011 I was lucky enough to stopover in Dubai over the weekend so I can update you on the Emirati car market. Toyota looks like it is still leading the way by a very large margin there, with the Toyota Corolla, Camry and Land…
Picture by Imran Akram. All rights reserved. The Saudi car market has not been affected much by the economic crisis, with sales up 1% in 2009 at 595,586 units, the 2010 BMI forecast being +2% at 619,220 units. Observation of the main capital cities' streets through YouTube videos indicate the…
Toyota Hilux in Monrovia, Liberia * Click on title for more street scenes and video! * Liberia is still in the midst of recovering from the long civic war that tore the country apart, so understandably priority is not given to cars in this context. About half of all cars…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * New cars are relatively rare in the streets of the capital Kinshasa, and among them the clear leaders are the Toyota Hilux and Prado. The latter's old gen is the most ubiquitous car there and the new generation is promised…
The latest official data I could get my hands on dates back to 2003 and was limited to Abu Dhabi. The Toyota Land Cruiser was leading the way then ahead of the Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sunny, Nissan Patrol and Mitsubishi Lancer. Observation in Abu Dhabi and Dubai during my last…